With modern power management and such even when the system is shutdown
there is a trickle of power squeezing it's way thru the PS. The power
runs thru the mb and out to the mouse and KB waiting for you to move
the mouse or hit a key to power up the system.
Myself I put a tiny inverter and 8 feet of blue EL wire inside the
keyboard running back and forth between the keys. I have a large
black desk that I built a keyboard/mouse platform under. Playing
games at night with the lights off, if my fingers got off the right
keys, the light from the monitor wouldn't light the KB to let me see
the right keys as they are shaded by the desk. Now I can see them in
the dark.
Shutting down the system, I still get the 5v to the keyboard, enough
to keep the inverter/EL wire running. So if I come in the study in
the dark, I don't have to turn on the light to see to boot the system.
Of course if the mouse light bothers you, I don't suppose you're going
to light up the keyboard too......<G>
If the mouse light really bothers you, pull the power plug.
Or you could run the monitor and PS lines thru a power console and
really kill everything with a single switch....
Is it 'normal' for the red light on the Microsoft Intellimouse to be on all the
time...even when the computer is turned off.....mine seems to be. Is there a
way to change this behavior?
Howard
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